I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Mark Twain

Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.

Kahlil Gibran

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Herman Melville

Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?

Orson Scott Card

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

May L. Becker

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

Steve Blake

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Alton Brown